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# saxon

«saxon» in Mova's school dictionary: **The Saxons were a Germanic people who settled in England…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a Saxon, Saxons); adjective (Saxon)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (history) The Saxons were a Germanic people who settled in England from about AD 450, with the Angles and Jutes; together they are called the Anglo-Saxons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saxon/#m1)

2) Saxon means about these people or their times. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saxon/#m2)

3) Saxony is a region of Germany; Saxon also means from there. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saxon/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In UK history lessons, the Anglo-Saxons founded England, its early kingdoms and Old English; Saxon villages and kings are common topics. Phrases: Anglo-Saxon, Saxon king, Saxon village.

### examples

- The Saxons came to England by boat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saxon/#x1)
- We built a Saxon village in class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saxon/#x2)
- Saxon kings ruled parts of England. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saxon/#x3)
- Old English was spoken by the Anglo-Saxons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saxon/#x4)
- Sutton Hoo is a famous Saxon burial. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saxon/#x5)
- Saxon houses had thatched roofs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saxon/#x6)

### note

Capital S. Countable as a noun. Many English place names come from Saxon words (-ton, -ham).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «saxon» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saxon/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.